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January 18, 2010 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 01/18/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Hosted by Bill Resnick, this show features music of the Great Depression, a discussion of what Obama has and has not done to create jobs, putting Haitian poverty in historical context, a conversation about how to save journalism (and what it needs to be saved from); and a ... Read more

Life & Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King

Airs at: Thu, 01/14/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
About the program…Join co-hosts Jo Ann Bowman and Dave Mazza every Thursday morning as they bring you informative guests and lively discussions about the issues that are important to you and your community. Every week, Voices from the Edge provides KBOO listeners a place to... Read more

Looking beyond the rhetoric: the arguments for (and against) Measures 66 & 67

Airs at: Thu, 01/07/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
On January 26, Oregonians will be asked to decide how the latest chapter in the state's long-running tax wars will turn out. Opponents of two tax increases approved by the legislature in 2009 succeeded in collecting enough signatures for a referendum on what are now Measure... Read more

December 28 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 12/28/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Denise Morris hosts this show which features discussions of police brutality, the auto industry, Jeffrey Eugenides novel Middlesex, and the movie "Up In the Air."   For information about our theme music and our graphics, go to our main page. You can follow us on Twitter, a... Read more

What's Ahead for Auto Workers?

Airs at: Mon, 12/28/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Dianne Feeley is a retired auto worker who writes about the industry and the United Auto Workers Union. She talks with Denise Morris about the future of the industry and the situation of the workers today.  You can read an essay of hers here.   Read more

The Decade In Review: Call in with your Best and Worst of the Decade

Airs at: Tue, 12/29/2009 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Joe UrisToday's show will be The Decade In Review...  Joe will seed the discussion with some of his own observations, then ask for yours. Read more

Health Care Debate: What Next?

Airs at: Mon, 12/21/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
How should workers respond to the disappointing Senate debate over health care? Three of organized labor's leading single payer advocates---Cindy Young of the California School Employees Association, Matt Schlobohm of the Maine State AFL-CIO, and Tom Leedham of Teamsters L... Read more

Voices from the Edge: What's behind Oregon's domestic violence murders-suicides?

Airs at: Thu, 12/10/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
Fourteen Oregonians died last month in five murder-suicides and one attempted murder suicide. Why this sudden outbreak now of men using guns to murder their spouses, ex-spouses and themselves when domestic violence homicides in Oregon have been on the decline? In 1997, 22 d... Read more

December 7 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 12/07/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Hosted by Denise Morris, this show discusses how to make jobs part of the economic recovery, the Afghanistan "surge," student protests against the tuition hikes in California, and how homophobia begins at home and what to do about it.  For information about our theme music... Read more

Jobs, Jobs, Jobs

Airs at: Mon, 12/07/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 The Economic Policy Institute has a 5-point plan for making jobs part of the economic recovery, and a way to pay for it.  The EPI's Josh Bivins explains what it requires in this interview with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick.  Bivins  is the author of Everybody Wins Except for... Read more